I doubt that this is an original idea, since it seems to have its counterparts in other areas, but I came up with it this morning: that Fox News, by being such a joke, serves to legitimize the rest of television news in America.
Let me explain. First off, Fox News is only a joke to those who don't watch Fox News. For those that do watch it, it is finally a news source that speaks to them- news stripped away from its "liberal bias". Fox News is in fact, for them, fair and balanced.
But for those who see through all the jingoism, the flag waving, the empty rhetoric- for those who dispise people like Bill O'Reily, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter- well, Fox News does its job on those people as well.
The more outlandish Fox News is, the more we hate Fox News, then the easier it becomes to believe that other mainstream media sources, sources that come off a little more reasoned and intelligent, are actually giving us the truth.
This is just a theory.
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